Hassan's Prayer Dilemmas

1. Hassan Al-Battat finishes praying at a public prayer room in the shopping centre and - after checking his compass - realises that the qibla sign was off by a few degrees.

Hassan does NOT have to redo his prayer.

• True

• False

After breathing a sigh of relief, Hassan realises that he couldn't remember whether he did two sajdahs on the fourth Ruq'aa or only one.

Does he have to repeat his prayer?

• Yes

• No

After getting home, Hassan realises it's time for Salat Al Maghrib. As he gets to the end of his third Ruq'aa, Hassan accidentally continues his prayer, instead of concluding it. He realises his mistake whilst still standing, what should Hassan do?

• go back down and conclude the prayer

• restart the prayer

• go back down, conclude the prayer and do sajdatay al-sahu

• do an extra (ihtiyat) rukaa after

It's a new day and Hassan and his family are going for a trip to Melbourne's Luna Park. The distance from Hassan's house in Melbourne to Luna Park is about 23 km. What should Hassan do?

• Pray quickly so that they can go on all the rides

• do the prayer as Qassir (traveller prayer)

• pray normally

After nearly falling off the rollercoaster, Hassan has steeled himself to start attending Friday (Jumaa) prayer every week. During the sermon, Hassan spies Mehdi Al Hilo, at the corner of his eye and makes his way to give him a proper Salam and dab him up.

What is the main reason why Hassan and Mehdi's actions are problematic?

• it's rude to the sheikh, whose spent all this time preparing the Khutba

• It's like talking to someone and turning away from the qibla during Salah, therefore invalidating it

• they will miss out on the wisdom and knowledge that the sermons offer

Hassan and Mahdi are hanging out late at night. Mahdi gets up to pray salat al-layl, and feeling inspired, Hassan goes to stand behind him in Jama3a. They finish up and go back to chilling.

True or false, they did nothing wrong.

• True

• False

After realising he couldn’t pray, Hassan goes to sleep and wakes up after the time of Salat al layl. So he decides to pray it qatha.

How would you advise him?

• he can’t pray qatha for a non compulsory salah

• he can pray qatha for non compulsory salah

• it’s only allowed for salat al layl

Hassan feels really confident today, and decides to lead Salah jama’ah for Maghrib and Isha. Mahdi comes in late for salat al Maghrib and joins on the 2nd rukah. He finishes with the rest of the group.

Select the most appropriate option

• there’s no issue because he joined before the 3rd rukah

• it’s invalid because u have to join at the first rukah

• he needs to add a rukah at the end of his salah

As Mehdi is coming in, the group has just entered into ruku of the second rukah, so he rushes to quickly join. He finishes his qiyam and goes to rukuu before the imam gets up. Has he made it in time?

• yes

• no

Hassan is praying salat al Isha when Mehdi rushes in, Mehdi still needs to pray salat almaghrib, can Mehdi join the salah?

• no he has to pray with someone praying maghrib

• he can but he must pray in the second row

• he can as long as he ends his salah early and has the intention for Salat Al-maghrib